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+<?php ///Class file for textarea field, extends base_field
+///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+//                                                                       //
+// NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT                                                   //
+//                                                                       //
+// Moodle - Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment         //
+//          http://moodle.org                                            //
+//                                                                       //
+// Copyright (C) 2005 Martin Dougiamas  http://dougiamas.com             //
+//                                                                       //
+// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  //
+// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  //
+// the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     //
+// (at your option) any later version.                                   //
+//                                                                       //
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,       //
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of        //
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the         //
+// GNU General Public License for more details:                          //
+//                                                                       //
+//          http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html                         //
+//                                                                       //
+///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+/// Please refer to lib.php for method comments
+
+class data_field_textarea extends data_field_base {
+
+    var $type = 'textarea';
+
+    function data_field_textarea($fid=0){
+        parent::data_field_base($fid);
+    }
+    
+    
+    /***********************************************
+     * prints the form element in the add template *
+     ***********************************************/
+    function display_add_field($id, $rid=0) {
+        global $CFG;
+        if (!$field = get_record('data_fields', 'id', $id)){
+            notify('That is not a valid field id!');
+            exit;
+        }
+        if ($rid) {
+            $content = get_record('data_content', 'fieldid', $id, 'recordid', $rid);
+            if (isset($content->content)) {
+                $content = $content->content;
+            }
+        }
+        else {
+            $content = '';
+        }
+        $str = '';
+
+        if ($field->description) {
+            $str .= '<img src="'.$CFG->pixpath.'/help.gif" alt="'.$field->description.'" title="'.$field->description.'" />&nbsp;';
+        }
+        $str .= '<textarea name="field_' . $field->id . '" id="field_'.$field->id . '"';
+        if (!empty($field->param2) && !empty($field->param3)) {
+            $str .= ' style="width:' . $field->param2. '; height:' . $field->param3 . ';"';
+        }
+        $str .= '>' . $content . '</textarea>';
+        return $str;
+    }
+}
+
+?>